Act stunned: Apple is beginning to tick all the regulatory containers essential to launch a brand new Iphone. That’s proper, the iPhone 15 lineup is only a month away and if we didn’t have already got sufficient affirmation of its existence, a brand new regulatory submitting in India places extra gas on the fireplace.

As noticed by the oldsters at MySmartPrice, an unreleased “Apple smartphone with the mannequin quantity A3094” has surfaced within the Bureau of Indian Requirements database this week. Whereas the itemizing itself doesn’t present any affirmation of what precisely this system is, chances are high an unreleased “Apple smartphone” popping up this time of the yr represents one of many iPhone 15 fashions.

Additional sleuthing by 9to5Mac confirms that this can be a legitimate Apple mannequin quantity and that Apple is getting ready its backend infrastructure to deal with the A3094 system – and others – forward of subsequent month’s iPhone 14 launch.

This comes nearly precisely one yr after an unreleased “Apple smartphone” appeared in the identical Indian regulatory database forward of the iPhone 14’s launch final yr. That mannequin turned out to be the usual iPhone 14, and the regulatory database was ultimately up to date with the remainder of the iPhone 14 lineup.

Earlier right now, a separate report revealed that Apple has additionally began iPhone 15 manufacturing in India, becoming a member of ongoing manufacturing in China. Apple’s purpose is to ship iPhone 15 fashions from each India and China on the identical time this yr, although it’s nonetheless unclear if it’ll obtain that purpose this yr.

A latest iOS 16 beta additionally referenced new AirPods with a mannequin variety of A3048 and case mannequin variety of A2968. There’s nonetheless no phrase on when these AirPods will see the sunshine of day, however they’re anticipated to be an up to date model of AirPods Professional with USB-C for charging.

So sure, a brand new iPhone is coming. It’ll be known as the iPhone 15 and Apple is within the means of leaping via all the regulatory and logistical hurdles to organize for the September launch.

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